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JimmyVWine

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  1. Spring Break is largely irrelevant for European cruises.
  2. Seems as if they found a middle ground third option. Send people on the March 9th sailing a moveover offer ensuring that the ship sails way below capacity so that they can better stress-test the new ship, while also ensuring that the people who do board the ship are fully onboard (pardon the pun) with the fact that they will be getting a "less than" experience. People who reject the offer and opt to board the ship will be doing so with eyes wide open and can hardly be heard to complain. (Though they will anyway.)
  3. The same holds true even if guests 3 and 4 are adults.
  4. I see your point, but starting new, content-specific threads is a proven losing strategy here. The newly created thread continues to drift to pages 2 or 3, and has 11 posts, only 2 of which are substantive with the remainder being posts cheering on the new thread in hopes that it will prove valuable. Far more information about what is and is not included is and will continue to be found here. Same thing happened with the "Photos and Videos of Sun Princess" separate thread. Which has more photos and videos, that separate thread, or this one? That thread has drifted to page 5. In a perfect world, the roles would reverse, but as I noted, separate threads prove to be a losing strategy here.
  5. Not only that, today everyone is a social media "star". If the CEO started sitting down with every YT poster with 1,000 followers to discuss pressing issues, he'd have to do that 2,369 times on this one cruise alone.
  6. No. They can sail with no package at all, a drink package that covers-non-alcohol drinks, or get Plus or Premier. When securing a reservation with Packages, the first two guests will get those attached to their account and guests 3 (and 4 if applicable) get charged the "Cruise Only" fare and you will have to contact Princess or your Travel Agent to add whatever package or plan you want for the additional passengers. And they do not have to be the same. For example, you could add a package or drinks plan to the 7 year-olds account and nothing to the 5 year old. Or Plus for the 7 year old and a drink package for the 5 year old. If you book direct with Princess, you can do this through the Chat function on the website. I have done this three times and it took me less than 10 minutes each time. Calling can take much longer. And if you use a TA, you should have them do it. You can also add packages and Plans once on board. There is usually no saving for doing so, and it does involve waiting in a Customer Service Line on Day One which may not be how you want to start your cruise. Also, they frequently have a table set up somewhere in the Piazza on Day One for signing people up for drink plans. Not sure if they also handle adding full Packages like Plus and Premier.
  7. Hermie! If we don't get Spellbound finished on time, the children will be so upset!
  8. I would certainly hope so. But just imagine the uproar if they weren't? A transatlantic on a tramp steamer. 🀣 I am on the cruise before that that goes from BCL to Southampton before it heads across the Atlantic. Four Sea Days and an overnight in Southampton before disembarking.
  9. I’m holding off until September!
  10. I figured that the pub offerings would appear either there or in the buffet (or both). But a stand alone Pub Lunch in a dedicated venue seems highly unlikely when O’Malley’s is selling its menu.
  11. Funny (not funny) story. Back in 1997 my sister-in-law was a Disney TA. She urged me to book a cruise on their brand new Disney Magic scheduled to set sail in April, 1998. I figured that I would throw her some business, but I didn’t want anything to do with the first several cruises of a brand new ship on a brand new line. (I’m not counting the Big Red Boat as being a predecessor.). So I booked for the first week of August thinking that this would be enough time to for shakedown issues. After a lengthy delay in launching, our cruise proved to be the second for that ship. Not saying that Sun needed 4 extra month’s lead time. But certainly one would have been a good idea.
  12. No chance. The Pub Lunch was an included option for all guests. O’Malley’s is a paid-for casual venue. Princess is not going to give away its Fish-n-Chips when it can sell them. I suspect that the introduction of O’Malley’s spells the end of the free Pub Lunch.
  13. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, let’s see what the early reviews here on CC are after the first wave of guests gets off. IMO, Princess took a big gamble sailing with much of its new β€œgroundbreaking, spectacular, never-before-seen” features non-operational. It had a choice of cancelling more cruises (probably no fewer than 2) or sailing with apologies. A no win situation. If early reviews are devastating, they chose wrong as first impressions last forever. If early reviews are largely forgiving, they chose right. We will know soon.
  14. Why install drink holders when you can sell these in the Princess Shop?
  15. I seem to recall that there was a poll conducted here several years ago (pre-pandemic) and the runaway winner was: "We got the category we paid for." The responses so far in this thread are very encouraging. I wonder if Captain's Circle status level plays a role. Will Platinum and Elite fare better than Blue, Ruby and Gold? If you are willing to share your status at the time of boarding, maybe that might add some insight to the data.
  16. Our order as well, only as a pod of three people, we add on a second pizza. Or an eggplant rotini if that is available.
  17. $5 per ride, or a one time payment of $14.99 for unlimited use. Also included with Plus, Premium and Signature privileges. . . . j/k
  18. There is no single answer. As for timing, the recipient only cares that they were recognized. Not when they were recognized. Don't stress over it. As for amount, that is entirely up to you.
  19. My prediction is that there is going to be a sea-change (pun intended) with the current iteration of the Sanctuary at the first drydock refurb, if not sooner. While P.T. Barnum has never been proven wrong about suckers being born every minute, there is a limit to their gullibility. Raise prices and provide only rows of unpadded vinyl lounge chairs with no shade? Even Mr. Barnum could not have anticipated people being so foolish. And this is especially true when we see pictures and videos of the Dome and Sea View Terrace offered to everyone at no charge. People who book cruises on Sun Princess are going to fall over themselves to experience the new features and when they try out the bow-based lounge areas for free, there is nothing that would compel anyone to pay for the lesser, stern-based lounge area. Add in the new Cabanas (which afford solitude), the Reserve Cabana deck area, (which is capacity-limited), the Signature Sun Deck (which is also capacity-limited) and generally larger balconies throughout the ship for people to hang out in, and the need to pay for the Fortress of Solitude that the Sanctuary typically provides evaporates. Maybe I will eat these words, but I can't imagine the current iteration of the Sanctuary being anything other than crickets for the foreseeable future.
  20. Thanks. I suppose his beef could be loaded on in both Barcelona and Rome.
  21. Not unless you add alcohol to them! The 15 is for adult beverages only. Everything else is "drink until your bladder bursts."
  22. Not complaining! I would expect it to be excellent. Just confused as to why it is so important to associate with this Tuscan dude when the meat hails from Spain. Now, if Butcher's Block could just load up on some Salamancan Jamon Iberico and a selection of Mencia wines, I'd be there every night!
  23. I've seen what some people have done to get beads tossed their way at Mardi Gras. I do NOT want to see that on a Princess ship! 😲 Sounds a bit cannibalistic if you ask me. Birds eating seeds from a feeder shaped like a bird.
  24. I'm [more than] a bit confused. The chef (or is he a butcher?) who is heading up this partnership is Italian, with a famous butcher shop in Tuscany. The Crown Grill is going to get a Chef's Dinner featuring a Florentine Steak from said chef/butcher. But the Butcher's Block menu says at the bottom that all of the meat sourced for that restaurant comes from Spain. So is Princess tapping into this butcher's famous offerings at Butcher's Block, or is the chef/butcher merely adding his name to the operation?
  25. Let that be a lesson to you, kids. Punctuation matters! πŸ‘¨β€πŸ«
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